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DB-Engines Ranking of Key-value Stores

The DB-Engines Ranking ranks database management systems according to their popularity. The ranking is updated monthly.

This is a partial list of the complete ranking showing only key-value stores.

Read more about the method of calculating the scores.

☐ include secondary database models				71 systems in ranking, February 2026
Rank			DBMS	Database Model	Score
Feb 2026	Jan 2026	Feb 2025	DBMS	Database Model	Feb 2026	Jan 2026	Feb 2025
1.	1.	1.	Redis	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine Time Series DBMS Vector DBMS	147.04	+2.88	-10.87
2.	2.	2.	Amazon DynamoDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	67.87	-1.92	-7.71
3.	3.	3.	Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Wide column store Spatial DBMS	23.88	-0.92	+1.75
4.	4.	4.	Memcached	Key-value	14.60	-0.19	-2.09
5.	5.	5.	etcd	Key-value	7.43	-0.19	+0.37
6.	6.	6.	Hazelcast	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	5.34	+0.02	-0.17
7.	7.	7.	Aerospike	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Spatial DBMS	3.66	-0.11	-1.43
8.	9.	12.	ArangoDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Search engine	3.47	+0.15	+0.56
9.	8.	11.	RocksDB	Key-value	3.39	-0.18	+0.33
10.	10.	9.	Riak KV	Key-value	3.21	-0.02	-0.13
11.	11.	8.	Ehcache	Key-value	3.04	+0.08	-1.28
12.	12.	10.	Oracle NoSQL	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.90	-0.03	-0.39
13.	13.	13.	Apache Ignite	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	2.85	-0.04	-0.04
14.	14.	16.	GemFire	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store	2.82	+0.11	+0.39
15.	15.	15.	Google Cloud Bigtable	Multi-model Key-value store Wide column store	2.57	-0.01	-0.13
16.	16.	14.	OrientDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store	2.56	-0.01	-0.16
17.	17.	27.	Valkey	Key-value	2.30	+0.04	+1.30
18.	18.	17.	InterSystems IRIS	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	2.07	-0.01	-0.29
19.	19.	20.	LMDB	Key-value	1.96	+0.00	+0.16
20.	20.	19.	Infinispan	Key-value	1.94	+0.00	-0.07
21.	21.	18.	LevelDB	Key-value	1.90	+0.01	-0.22
22.	22.	22.	Oracle Coherence	Key-value	1.69	-0.06	+0.02
23.	23.	21.	Oracle Berkeley DB	Multi-model Key-value store Native XML DBMS	1.64	-0.01	-0.14
24.	24.	23.	Amazon SimpleDB	Key-value	1.60	-0.02	-0.03
25.	27.	24.	Geode	Key-value	1.35	+0.00	+0.01
26.	26.	26.	GridGain	Multi-model Columnar Key-value store Object oriented DBMS Relational DBMS	1.34	-0.02	+0.05
27.	25.	25.	Tarantool	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS Spatial DBMS	1.32	-0.05	-0.01
28.	28.	30.	GT.M	Key-value	0.94	+0.01	+0.03
29.	29.	29.	FoundationDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.92	+0.01	-0.03
30.	30.	31.	NCache	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Document store Search engine	0.85	-0.04	-0.05
31.	31.	28.	ZODB	Key-value	0.76	-0.04	-0.23
32.	32.	32.	KeyDB	Key-value	0.71	+0.00	+0.05
33.	33.	33.	BoltDB	Key-value	0.59	+0.01	-0.03
34.	34.	35.	Graph Engine	Multi-model Graph DBMS Key-value store	0.55	-0.02	+0.06
35.	35.	37.	Dragonfly	Key-value	0.54	+0.01	+0.07
36.	36.	36.	MapDB	Key-value	0.43	0.00	-0.05
37.	38.	38.	Scalaris	Key-value	0.42	0.00	-0.02
38.	37.	34.	WebSphere eXtreme Scale	Key-value	0.42	-0.01	-0.08
39.	39.	40.	Hibari	Key-value	0.39	-0.01	+0.04
40.	40.	42.	Cloudflare Workers KV	Key-value	0.37	-0.02	+0.10
41.	41.	41.	Project Voldemort	Key-value	0.26	-0.01	-0.02
42.	43.	44.	YTsaurus	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.22	0.00	+0.03
43.	42.	43.	LeanXcale	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.21	-0.01	0.00
44.	44.	46.	Faircom DB	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.20	-0.01	+0.03
45.	45.	55.	ArcadeDB	Multi-model Document store Graph DBMS Key-value store Time Series DBMS	0.20	+0.02	+0.15
46.	46.	45.	YottaDB	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.18	+0.00	+0.00
47.	48.	49.	Kyoto Tycoon	Key-value	0.18	+0.01	+0.09
48.	49.	51.	Tokyo Tyrant	Key-value	0.17	+0.01	+0.09
49.	47.	39.	Immudb	Key-value, Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.17	+0.00	-0.20
50.	50.	47.	Badger	Key-value	0.11	0.00	-0.05
51.	51.	48.	Speedb	Key-value	0.10	0.00	-0.01
52.	52.	53.	ScaleOut StateServer	Key-value	0.07	0.00	+0.02
53.	53.	52.	Elliptics	Key-value	0.06	+0.00	0.00
54.	54.	56.	STSdb	Key-value	0.04	+0.00	+0.01
55.	55.	57.	Faircom EDGE	Multi-model Key-value store Relational DBMS	0.04	+0.01	+0.02
56.	56.	58.	Resin Cache	Key-value	0.01	-0.01	+0.00
57.	59.	61.	TerarkDB	Key-value	0.01	+0.01	+0.01
58.	57.	59.	LedisDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
59.	58.	60.	SwayDB	Key-value	0.00	+0.00	+0.00
60.	59.	61.	BergDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	Cachelot.io	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	CortexDB	Multi-model Document store Key-value store	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	Helium	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	HyperLevelDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	InfinityDB	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	JaguarDB	Multi-model Key-value store Vector DBMS	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	50.	Skytable	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	-0.09
60.	59.	54.	Tigris	Multi-model Document store Key-value store Search engine Time Series DBMS	0.00	±0.00	-0.04
60.	59.	61.	Tkrzw	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	TomP2P	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00
60.	59.	61.	Upscaledb	Key-value	0.00	±0.00	±0.00

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